The Sun. — London, England, 1826-03-24 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DA UN Rxtroctsfroni Mornitig Popers t Marcii 2 4, l626 . Caarrtso The . intelligence from Portugal, given in the French Papers, contains scarcely any additional 'reformation. We see no reason to, retract the opinion which we originally advanced, that Isa bella Maria, in lite event of Don P ed ro 's re signation, will ascend the throne of Portugal.— Iler,twO sisters, who have been married to Spa nish Princes; are.excluded by a fundamental law of the State, which provides that " a daughter of the King marrying any Prince or Lord of a fo reign nation, shall not be rec o g nised either as Quern or Regent," Sir William A'Court has had several long interv iews with the Portuguese' Ministry, and .the Commander of the English squadron in the Tagus has taken such Measures as are proper to secure the tranquillity of Lisbon. An additional frigate. with two brigs has arrived in that port. The will of the late King directs that the Regency shall continue to discharge its functions till the legitimate heir of the Crown shalt give his orders on the subject. The Courier Pram:Ws asserts, on the authority of a letter from Lisbon,. that Don Pedro was to be pro claimed King. In Spain, it seems, the exclusion of the Queen of Portugal from the Regency has caused a popular tumult at Madrid. The ,Council of State still continues to form projects for excluding such persons from employments as are not likely to 'second them in theirviews ; but the King does not appear in. dined to adopt, their suggestions. It is even supposed that he has a design of restoring the Biscuyens to all their ancient privileges nml iin munities. Ferdinand seems, in his opposition to the Apostolical.party, as well as in this last wee. sate, to h e governed by the ittfluence of the French, - BVIIOSO interest it is to . secure the good will of the people of that province, as they cati at any time prevent u French army from pene• trating into Spain. The nature of the principal conlinotinliS iii Spain has been a little misappre hended ; as the danger arising from the endea vours of the Constitutionalii,ts is far less formi dable than that which is said to threaten Ferdi nand from the partizans of Don Carlos. We learn that the first and third battalions 'of the 56th French regiment of the line arrived at Tou louse,: from Perpignan and Carcassone, and set out en the 17th inst.; the first battalion for lava, and the other for St. Jean pied-de.Port. r Tim Es, j The meeting at the Rank of England yester. day was the usual half-yearly one, and was con. ducted, we regret to say, on the usual system , — that is, with the most austere anti rigid secrecy as to the general concerto of the corporation itself, whose members were 'called together pi() forma, and then in due form sent homer again. A few questions, indeed„, were asked by Mr. Young, it proprietor, respecting the. recent Measures of the Bank, fur alleviating what, has liven, in our judgment erroneously, termed the 44 universal" distress throughout the country. It. was Stated on this point, by the Governor, that the vunces made by the Rank upon goods had fallen much within a quarter of it million sterling! Let us, then, just put it to any reasonable mind, whether if those who suffered wrong fully- we mean, who had ample stocks, but could not raise money on 'them, and who there.: fore might be considered more the victims of general causes which they - could not controul, than of their ow it foolish or fraudulent specu lations,---whether, we sny, if suche Gt objecti aC .sympathy and meritorious Candidates for pecuniary assistance had 'formed any large pro portion of the commercial world, or , i ndeed, even a'fraction of ii worth being clasied. and , -distin• guished, it is possible to imagine that 'the aid admistered to them' would not have exceeded `,2t)0,00Q/.?' Why', there 'are dozens of mererm. , tile hodses in London who could themselves have provided, each one of them, the full amount which it seems was called for by the itt'ltole body of those under embarrassment who had any just title of relief ; for :lie it remembered, that we . go. upon the assuroPtiou of the r Rank .of Eng-, land having liberally granted whatever relief was asked of them by tilPll who ought to have been assisted, here, than, is another proof,' if such hail been wanting, that the commer cial distress was almost cOnlined to those who never had real means, and u hose insolvency was rather detected by the lute crisis than pro duced by it, awl hose false pretensions to pro perty and credit were then exposed to an ordeal with which they could tio longer :struggle. No thing could byniore obvious and natural than for such nien to exclaim, that tell, their neighbours were on a level with themselves,- and that. they were perishing, not thrmogh the frailness of their own bark, bot through the fatal violence of a universal and irresistible tempest. We repeat, then, that t he very Lllllootil of loans by the Blink of I.''mg t(l (notwithstanding its arknow• itll4Cti and liberality in milking them) ought to he looked upon as o n e among the symp toms of delusimi employed in painting thelrature and extent of our mercantile distresses, But when it was iorinired y a Raok Propriwor yoSterday, to what description i of 'persons the aid of the dunk had been alrorded, and by what expedients hid it been contrived that nit issue of notes should not be rendered conducive to4in artificial rise of prices, the° overnor replied that theadvanceswere made principally to manofactureriOtatugh to Shine, 44 who were inerchauti, with it fult , mtderstand , tc ing that the aerommod'ation wits not to be math 64 a m otive for raising the prices 4;ml bless the wise y civet nor who made this . %iisetliseourse. $ 0 „, are, th3t if he had not stood , high and • dry as a ruler of (hi, hunk of England, he might ha v e hammered long enough' at :‘‘'politicat ootny, )' lief he had tibillitied:liiinSelf by- his i n that sharp sChOol to rtiise capital k Director. su fficient for the °nice or pe c uniary acce Au understanding, deed,that( Modation shall ,not be made a Motive for raising prices! Why, the " understanding" must be as bright as that of ,my Lord Governor, that could hare any effect at all upon the market price of , goods. If the merchant with , an extensive stock borrows money from the 'Bink of England, it is to escape the necessity of selling that stock at what he , thinks a disadvantage. The loan en ables him to lock up still longer the goods whiFh, without it, he must have sold for what they would fetch. This, then, is the nice dis tinction on which the Prime Minister of the Bank seems to rely—that a loan to a merchant or manu facturer does not raise the price of his goods—it only prevents their falling to their natural value ! —However, we find that money is not in future to he lent on mortgages by the Bank—that branch banks for the country are under consideration — and that Proprietors and the Public may remon• strate until doomsday, without inducing the Di rectors to relax one particle of that ill-omened and unworthy secrecy 'in which they have hitherto thought fit to envelope the general ac counts of the corporation. Nevertheless they must, ere long, apply to Parliament for another charter—and then— [MORNING eon.] The principal bUsiness in Parliament last nigh was the voting the Supplies, by the Commons, for the Charitable Institutions in Ireland, of which of course Mr. Hume abundantly availed himself to occupy the attention of the !louse. The Ex-Lord Rector coinmeoced with a general attack. upon those Institutions, by objecting to the Report respecting them being brought up ; but in this he experienced a most signal defeat, the number engaged in the defence being sixty, while that of the puny assailants amounted only to six. Ilavillt4 thus failed in his general as sault, he betook himself to skirmishing, and lost no time in firing a volley upon the outpost of the, Hibernian Society, which was promptly and successfully returned by the force of Mr. Frankland Letvis. The assailant having been j completely driven front this ground, rallied his few defeated followers on several other points. He attempted.to make a stand at the Foundling Hospital ; but hii childish efforts proved still inure feeble here than in any other position he had assumed, and lie was precipitately drive'n' from it with his followers, whose number was now reduced to four. Thus beaten at all points, and his puny force dispersed, he was obliged t o content himself for the remainder of the day with tiring occasional random shots, utterly unable to prevent a single supply front being afforded to the citadel—the nurse and protection of genuine ra l . tional sentiment and pure religious faith.—Both Houses have adjourned to Wednesday Be'o"ight) April 5. [N c w Ti lat es.] Among the Orders of the Day in the Housed Commons, yesterday, , was the consideration of the new' Insolvent Debtors' Bill, which has passed through a Committee with several amend- inputs. It will be remembered that the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors was first consti tuted its 1810 ; a Court house was directed to be I)tilit in Portugal street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, by 1 the Act of 1822, and the Commissioners were tip. painted to go Circuits by that of 18.24. This Court, having been found of signal utility, is con. tinned by the present A et, with some salutary all. dit ions to its former functions. Persons confined for contempts by non-payment of money, may, like other debtors, petition for their discharge. 'llse Costa is not absolutely restrained from receiving petitions from persons not within the walls of a prison, but may, in case of ill health, or for other specified causes, dispense aids the previous coo finenent. A discretionary power is very'properly given to she Court to authorise the, raising of money on certain kinds of property by way ..)f Mortgage, where an immediate sule,might.be pre judicial. The Court also has power to make an equitable order in case of a lease which , the , as signee declines to accept. The powers of the assignees are more clearly set forth than, hereto fere; they may make composition for debts, and stibmit differences' to 'arbitration, with the con sent of the majority in value of the creditors, who are to vote according to the balance due to them on an account fairly stated. Where the insolvent is a beneficed clergyman, the assignee may ob tain the sequestration of the living, and where he is a Naval, Military, Or Civil Officer of Government, the Court, on communication with the proper department of GOvernMPl4l may order a part of his pay or salary. to be applied to the use of his 'creditors; The Adt against secret Warrants of Attorney is declared to extend to Assignees under this Act : and, .on the . other twit!, the Assignees are held strictly to the rest. &ring an early account, end if they wilfully retain money, may be charged twenty per cent. interest on it by the Court. Annuity Creditors, I are admissible as for sums actually due : and the discharge of a prisoner operates upon these as welt as other debts. In the matter of costs, the Court has an equitable power to order them in certain cases to be paid out of the Insolvent's :ss,ste. and in certain other cases to be paid by creditor, frivolously and vexatiously oppos. lig a discharge. These are a , few of the most 'I'OIIIIIIPIIt- features .in an Act, which call, of fail greatly to interest many classes, but aore especially the trading part of 'the corn. rrunity. INIORNING CHRONICLE.] We have been favoured 'with the perusal of 1 I ,, itm ,, 04ce i v pd by the latest conveyance front the theatre of hostilities in the East. It was ,cue_ I rally the opinion of the officers, that the Burmese would not accept our terms of peace. Our naval expedition found no sort of difficulty in obtaining supplies of stores, thete being abundance of the finest Teak timber every where. Our army are said to have committed dreadful ravages in tho country. The places of worship, pagodas, were ciestroyed in the search for Samies ) or the Burmese gold and silver images. Our forag ing oarties obtained plenty of wild buffaloes, and tlt& ottutry abouods with game , t r he Bu r * mese bear, Op Joust knvelerate h atr ed towards the SelloY B ,,but,ure willing to be Ott good term s with the Europeans,often shaking hands with them. It was suppos e d that Sir Archibald Campbell would have little difficulty, its the rains were over, in advancing to the capital, should the Burmese refuse to accept our terms. The Chancellor has given notice that he will sit to-morrow. This his Lordship has done in the full assurance that COunsel will not attend, and' his motive in so doing, is to have the opportunity of lifting up his yoke, and uttering a lamentation that he is deserted by the Bar; and that an ob struction of business is occasioned by the ab , sense of Advocates. 'rue Bar think that they have a right to enjoy tho holidays, and complain that the Chancellor, who applies himself to a thousand things rather than to the business of his Court, would trench, or affect to trench, upon their holidays, in order to fetch up the -leeway which he has lost in the prosecution of his favou rite political pursuits.---(lbid.) [MORNING 11,ERALD.) Though we are far from wishing to find fault with the proposed improvements in the Strand, we confess we should be better satisfied, if, in stead of this kind of patch-work, an enlarged and intelligible plan were laid down, so that the pub lic might see at once all that is proposed to be Clone. Nothing, perhaps, is more wanting than an access from the North to the South sides of the Metropolis. A direct opening, from Totten ham-court-road to NVaterloo Bridge, and another, intersecting the first, from Charing-cross to Bloomsbury, would he a manifest advantage to the town, and might, we should think, be , combined, in a great degree, with the pro- 1 , posed improvements in the Strand. For want of a preconceived and intelligible, plan, some things are done twice over—other things are done which are not wanted, and consequently much unnecessary expence is not unfrequently incurred. That the Committee of Taste, as it is called, have no taste at all, is pretty apparent in almost every public work which they have un fortunately had the direction of ; and that they are equally 'deficient in judgment and forecast, is proved by the fact that after a great expence has been incurred in putting up a heavy pile of buildings at the Museum, as a library and picture gallery, they have at length disco vered that Saint Giles's is not exactly the re• gion for a taste any better than their OV4 n, and they are therefore now proposing to erect a national ,gallery elsewhere.. Recurring to the proposed widening of the Strand, we must say that if it is to stop at. Bedford-street, the public will not derive one.half that advantage front it which they ought to have. Except the part im mediately contiguous to Northumberland House, it is clear,that no part of the Strand is so narrow and incommodious, and no building so mani fest a nuisance and obstruction as Exeter Change. Why there should be more difficulty and delicacy in demolishing this property, than in disposing of that belonging to other in dividuals, we do not understand. Of course, no one can be so unreasonable or absurd, as to ex pect that the Marquis of Exeter' 'should, any more than another maim part with his property without fair or ample compensation.. The street will have a sad piebald appearance if this is not done ; and as it most at last be done, it had better, we should think, be part of the present plan, end not left till the value of the property 'tat; become greater'. [THE ICEPIMENTATI V E.] The French Papers Still continue to give us no I other articles of intelligence worth extracting b u t those relating to Spain. A debate in the Chem her of Deputies, hi which Benjamin Constant, tle Frenilly, M. de la Bourdonnuye, and de Villele took part, on the question, concerning S1.1)0(1 ,4, 1;0 , occupied all the time of. the Cham ber on the '2oth. The question was a t l as t carr i e d i n f avou r of Ministers, by 245740- 70. •The debate presented nothing particular. Old; Ben jamin Constant was as absurd us people on his particular side of the question are . generally France, enlightening ltis hearers on the sale of. Dunkirk by Charles 11. M.. d,e Fre-1611y declared, :dial "'ironssommes pour now cnnewer," in de fence of the tediousness of his oration. M. de la Bourdotmaye asked the Chamber if they would not spill the last drop of their blood sooner than ratify ,the treaties of Pavia or , Bretigny'? In answer to which theAlouse cried " and M. de Vil lele, as usual, spoke the only ,piece of common sense in the House, by assuring them. that there was no use of talking _about acknowledging St. Domingo, since it was beyond all question inch!- . !pendent. prtic minim; I,cnoila.l We learn from .the Austrian Observer of the lath instant, that the illness 1 )1 th e E mp ,,,.„ 1 . o f tw ice Austria, which the -.Frencli - Papers were. th e fi rst to announce, hail URSUMeIIt ill, the night of th e 9 b t l i i :'d a in ci gi r . a c c o t u e r r s( t t ru o l f y th i e da fi r ll l o il otg i d i a e y, '" Tiy 3 which the symptoms of inflammation and fever wer e arrested ; and in the following night his Majesty enjoyed some quiet sleep. These favourable signs were not, however, of long continuance, for the disease increased the next day, and a restless night was the result. 10 judge f rom t h e considerable decline which had taken place in,the kustrian Funds, the issue, at the date of the: last accounts, was cOnsidered 11101 P t ha n doubtful. W hat seems to confirm this opinion is the circumstance that • the seeds of the disease had been sown as : far back as September last , and, that he had been ailing from that - period ,till the beginning of this month, %% hen the symptoms assumed a very serious aspect. Many circumstances had occurred in the interval to affect a constitution which never was a robust one ; and, besides, the pain he, had felt at the resistance shown to his w i s h,,, by the Hungarian Diet, another c a use of distress was sioperadded in the unexpected death of his faithful confederate and friend, the late Empe ror of It . Should,presentimentsof.the worst kind he unhappily verified, the event would have no trivial influence on the affairs of the political world ;' for though the'extinctiotvof lust powers would occasion Ilojiercepritile loss; yet the even direction which he'hai given to the course of his policy, would he missed at. this moment. It is not too much to speculate bpon a departure from it in the conduct of his succes- sor, aceing his youth, and considering also the period, in which his mind ha's received its im pressions. The character of this young Prince is not much known, but, with whatever care the tight-laced maxims of the last age have been instilled into his mind, has been ,fully counte nanced by the spirit of liberality that is the dis tinguishing sign of our times. It would be expect ing too much, therefore, to think that he would tamely follow in the track which has been laid down in the present reign ; and his desire of distin guishing himself would probably correspond with the efforts that have been made to check in him this impulse. As the all-powerful favourite too of one reign, seldom retains his ascendancy in the next, it is more than probable that the influence of Prince Metternich would not be able to support itself long in the event of a change of sovereign, in which case, the European system, as it is called, would probably crumble to pieces. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 13ONV-STREET. LAMENTAIILE CASE or INSANITY... --Yesterday morning, a coach arrived at the door of this office, in which were two constables, with an unfortunate gentleman in their custody, whose hands and feet it had been found necessary to tie with cords, to prevent him from committing further violence on himself and others. The individual in question, Lieutenant Robert King, of the Fusileers, was removed from the coach into the office, with a great deal of trouble ; and the officers were obliged to secure him by placing .hanticuff's en him, and chaining his wrists to an iron belt placed round his waist. — Sir fttenaun Iliasur directed that he should be treated with the utmost kindness and .humanity. Such was his -extraordi nary strength during one of his paroxysms, that it required six officers to secure him, and several of them met with bruisei and contusions. On being placed before Sir Mt:mum ButsffE, the unhappy gentleman, who is evidently a man of education, though his appearance beggared all description, began to rail, in no measured terms, against those who had. violated the rights of an Englishman, by entering his house and depriving him of his liberty.—Mr. Clemence, a tradesman, who resides in Cra ven-street, Strand, was examined, and it appeared that Lieut. King had been a lodg er of 'his for four months , during - t he whole - of which period his behaviour had been very singular; but during the last three weeks, the family had been. in con stant alarm from his violence. His language was wild and in coherent, and his acts outrageous. On one occasion he threat-. ened to murder Mr. Clemence, and that morning his conduct exhibited confirmed symptoms of insanity. Ile threatened— " I f Mr. Clemenee came near him, to play the Devil with him." He afterwards called for water, anti the servant took bins some —when lie received it, he threw it on the room floor ; a second jug Of water was disposed of by hint in a similar way, and he hurled the pitcher at the girl's head. Having destroyed seve ral articles in.his room, he ran down stairs: into-lie yard, and began to deMolish a wall, and to throw the bricks at Mr. Cle mence and his family, and they were in imminent danger. lie then proceeded to break the window s of a k i tchen, in which the female part of the family had entered, and. had locked the door for security, and he threw brickbats. at them, declaring that lie would annihilate the whole of the Clemence family. SayerS, a parish constable was . sent for, .and, with assistance, an at tempt was made to secure the Lieutenant. He flattened himself in his bed-room, and as Mr. (lenience. was striking. at the, -Aloof : to. break it open; the Lieutenant opened the door .suddeply,..and thc., poker accidently struck hint on the side - of 'the head,' Mal lie bled considerably. • IVitile they were ! attempting 147... Secure him, his clothes were torn to pieces from. the,aesistance he made the skirts were removed front his coat, and in this deplorable state, one side of his head being covered with coagulated blood, he ap peared before the Magistrate, an object of the utmost commise ration. Sir R. Ilium tr. attempted to soothe the feelings of the poor maniac, but to no puose ; he exclaimed that lie was an Officer who had fought fortis King—Ged bless him—and for his country ; that his brave Commanding Officer, Sir 11. Cal. vert, would speak of him as a man of honour and a Gentleman.; anti Sir 11. Calvert would come to him, by lie should ; but f.e i t e ro t r ile h i n i a t b u i r ti n n e c d ht r d ou h r t it ei r eek i s w , o i r n s d a e ye e ri ai t t l i i i e ed c , oTaa u b )o le k , ha would not send . for Sir...tinny, he'd see him cursed first.-... a w t i trat Lilly-livered rascal—see the ass's ears." The 'Magistrates hay. ing satis fi ed themselves of the insanity.of the Lieutenant, made an order, under the Statute ? for his admission into the lunatic asylum at Buxton. The Lieutenant declared that he would go to tio place, except to the Secretary of State's Office, and he would remove Sir Richard from his office. Under the idea that he was going to visit Mr.' Peel, he was . conducted in a coach, in the same shocking condition in which lie appeared before the Magistrates, to Davies% mad-house. 31ARY-LA-BONNE. ExTnaonniNan linnotwar..---Information was given to Morris, an Officer of this establishment, on Tuesday last, of a Most extraordinary burglary, which had been..commated on the preceding night, pi the house of Mr. Barrett, a tradesman, re siding in High-street, Portland-town, Paddington. inves tigation ,into the affair was deferred till yesterday, in conse quence of the servant girl of 31 r. Barrett having been ever since speechless state (caused by excessive terror), and subject to frequent hysterical or convulsive tits. 31r. Barrett yesterday attended before .Messrs. ItawLi Name and itiFy rots, and the folleyvinguarrtuiou - of the robbery was given by the girl t— iler terecir, whilst she repeated particular parts of the alarm ing eiieutostateiii • proved, that however sonic persons may: he. inclined to withhold full credit to her story, its par taking rather of the marvellous, yet, those who witnessed her conduct, during the examination, were satisfied of the truth of her statement.- She said---." My name is Elizabeth Sims : I have been above two months in Mr. Barrett's , service ; on Monday night lust, about eight • o'clock, I was left alone in his house, and heard a knocking at the door; 1 opened it; and a female asked, if the next house belonging to my master was to be let ? I said that it was, and slowed her over it at her desire ; the woman said, she would consider about it, and went away, and I returned Itonie ; when I bad-unlocked the chair, end en tered the passage, before 1 had time to close it a fellow pushed it wide open, and thrust me violently along the passage towards the parlour; he made a signal, and Another man entered and put the door to ; they dragged me into the parlour ; and forced me into a- chair ; I entreated them to have mercy on me and save my life ; one of them tied a like of crape over my face, and , both of them tied me in a chair with cords ,• whilst they were fastening my hands and feet, the leg of the chair broke through their violence. Their language was dreadful ; ; they uttered the most horrid curses, and swore they would I murder nutit' I made the least noise. ~1 was able to view the persons of the robbers through . the crape, us they were rifling the place. One of them threatened to put me to instant death if I did not 'ten him where my master had deposited his money. 1 declared most solemnly that I did . not know. One. orthem, broke open a cupboard and took outsilver spoons; awl the other robber took tin iron ladle out of his pocket, and having bent up the 'spoons lie put them into it, and placed it on the tire. NVliilst the spoons were melting, the robbers took re freshment and drank liquor, which they found in the house. One was a tall titan, dressed in black, and the other was Slain, and dreaSed in blue. After they had melted the spoons, they extinguished the fire by:throwing something upon it; they put out the candle, and told me, " that it' I raised an alarm till they had got safe away', they would return and Murder me." At that moment I heard a Imodking- at the door, and . the robbers went towards the back of the house, and escaped. I screamed as loud as I was able, and a young man named Johnson, the son of a neighbour, t,Pot• in through the widow, and released me front the situatum in which the robbers left nie.—MAGIST RATE : This young man ought to come forward and .give evidence„ - --Mr. Banal- I I said, that he could be brought forward at any-time ;' and in reply to an - observation of Mr. Ilawlinson's, as to the delay occasioned by the girl not appearing at this Office on Tuesday be 'stated that she was in so very dangerous a condition, from the 'violence of the robbers , that sh e ha since been constantly con vulsed, and was unable to o ve rcome t h e shock her feelings had s nstained. Mr. &lair . riTlits asked thege of t'irlitieu she shoulld-kn thenow the men again, if site saw them ? Hints " h i t n h k Ie tieliwtltens weeks es: ire. , should : o d a I h e e ti ableanarkssaute te inquiries tpo rsonconcerning identifyw o culled at my ma s t er ' s a one a adjoining Itinice." The Magistrates directed the officers to tote the utmost dilkenec antlactivity.in searching after the robbets,. and the girl went home with her master. • By the death of Admiral WiLsoN, the resi dence o f the late Lord Chi e f J us ti ce 11oLT, Redarave Hull, with its domain, in Suffolk and N or f o lk, hi* borthhip's plate, books, 454 q., de volves to.the Admiral's eld e st SON G coati k ST. v iN cENTIti'I[.SON 3 in his 16th year. NEW SOUTH WALES; EXTRACT OF A . LETTEit FROM NVIF SODIU - WALEEi DATED SYDNEY, JUNE 30,'1825. The sudden death of a prisoner in our gaols has awakened attention, and an inquiry into the state of Sydney-Gaol has, in earnest been carried into effect.• The result of the investigation,haabeen submitted to the Governor ; and we doubt .not an entiro change will very soon take place in the interior of that wretched domicile. Any thing like comfort in,a prison, with due diference to those philanthropists who a few - years ago were pushing their prison reformation to excess, ought studiously to be avoided ; but common humanity requires that that which is intended in most cases as a place of security only, should not be converted into, a gloomy , Bastilr, where life may linger out its span in cheerless suspense, and uncertainty of final doom. The death of the man was, no doubt, accelerated, if not altogether occasioned by con finement in a cell. There is equally no doubt,• that he ought not to have been so - con.- fined ; it was an unfortunate though blame , less mistake, which caused that protracted confinement. But it has been ,suggested, that,- as he ate half a loaf on the morning of • his' • - death, and at the other half was, found in his hat,, he did not die from a want of food, or want of nourishment, if bread end water during nineteen•. weeks be suf f icient to supply nature; though nourishing cheer, administered When be first se.- riously complained of illness, which was two or three days before he died,. -night perhaps have' prevented the premature and consequently sus• picious termination of existence. The Sheriff ? the Deputy' Commissary General, and the prin-- cipal Surgeon, formed the Commission. This , whimsical selection of Commissioners was truly ludicrous. The first bad the gaol in his keeping second was the purveyor—and the third , the medical attendant.' In all probability the investigation was conducted with the same de gree _of liberality, truth, and justice, a s if the parties in their public dUties had been q uite in dependent of this establishment. •If indeed the• public may judge. from the: first mentioned Gen tleman, as a specimen of the whole, there can be no doubt on the subject. General policy, how ever, requires that no innovation should be made on thegenerul principles, and these should not be sacrificed, because, there happens to .be at the time no danger, and no hazard in so doing, for a dangerous precedent is easily made, but not easily got rid of. The Grand Jury again have ;, made. their, report, and, have presented various existing nuisances and suggested numerous mat ters requiring the prompt consideration of" the A u illorities." We only wish they had been more minute in their description of the gaol. They have been materially deficient in the prosecution of their labours in this department ; and - they cannot he complimented OIL their statement re specting it, What signifies praising the relative condition of the gaol, if its absolute condition be not what it ought to be ? InStead of lauding the healthy appearance of _the men, passing enco miums on their belia‘iour, and extending their approbation to the quality of the bread, 010' ought to have shown that they had examined the gaol, and haVe stated generally and particularly its unfitness—if such were the case and the reason of its unfitness as a place of confine ment for the crowded inmates it contained. On the arrival of Dr. Douglas here, an eiutnina don is to take place Into certain transactions which occurred some time ago in the ColOny,,und created many misunderstandings. Tett points, or ten questions,. are ,to underg o _consideration. This is done tit the instance of Lord Bathurst. The referees on the Occasion are, the Governor, time Chief Justice, the Archdeacon, and the Cu to Secretary. On the,result of this business will probably hinge the tenability of time office of Secretary to the Colonial Council. A horse pa trol is established with a view to suppress the many daring robberies which have been recently_ committed on the roads leading from Sidney to the interior of the Colony ; also one to afford protection to persons travelling the roads, is in contemplation. Chapman is expected to be con ductor of it. A country paper states, that in a letter received' from a convict in, New South wales, the price Of wheat is stated ,to be 10s. and barley 4s. 6d. per bushel ; potatoes, ss. per twt.; tea ss. and sugar 4s. per lb. ; spirits 14s. per gallon; and beer, 6d. per.pnt. • • Mr. N'AnAm was last week appointed by tin , trustees of the Bath -road, General Surveyor of that district, for live Years oltainott a salary or 0001. per annum, with power to appoint deputes and surveyors at discretion. The new-rail-read conch between Stockton and Darlington, with one horse and twenty pas" sertgers, performs the journey, a distance of eleven miles, in one hour and a quarter, the ink side fare being a shilling, the outside nittepetree• lt is calculated that both children and adults are redered Mere liable to disease and mortality. by the single circumstance of eating too much,. titan by any other twenty causes put together. BIRTHS. • • On Tuesday, the 21st instant, at Wartnahpliouse, Melton. Mowhray, the Hon: Mrs.l)avidsOn, of a daughter. At Longworth Herefordshire, the lady of Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, Ban. of a son. - Ai A It It IE D. The Rev. Hobert Greenwood, Vicar of , Colatan-Rawleigh , Devon, to Matilda, daughter of the late T. Vincent, Esq. Of Caine, Wilts. At Bath, by the 11ev..1. Wulff,Sir Richard llardinj.te, to Caroline Munster, daOgliter of Major-General Wulff. DIED. On Thursday last, at Croydon, Mr. James nookham, wine anti spirit-Merebant,,in the 46th year of his age. On Alonday, the inst. 31r. Needle, of Portman-place, Edgeware . .road, in thel4th year of his age. . On 'l' uestli:y, the :list inst. at Camberwell, ltobert Bolleston, Esq., in the 79th year of his age. At Thatelnor on the 19th inst. Thomas Hedges, Esq. aged 41 years. At Brighton, on the 19th inst. Harriet Ann, daughter of the late Stephen Haven, Esq. On Friday, the FM* inst• at lila l o dgings in Derby, Lieut. Geo. Castl e , IL N. lie served ud der liord Nelson at the great battle of Trafalgar, on board the Royal - Sovereign, Lord Col lingwood. . Printed and PIAUI:It-ea fin the PROPRIETORS, at the Suxi. Ovrict:, N 0.112, Strand, by J. B. 0.,,TA,„,, i~~: 1